Julia Alvarez (born in 1950) is a Dominican-American author and educator best known for her novels, short stories, and poems for both adults and young people. Her works include the novels How the GarcĆa Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Afterlife (2020). Her novels often blend Latin American history, autobiography, magic realism, and folklore and typically center on the experiences of women and girls, including characters who deal with growing up in a new cultural environment. Other themes of her work are family, aging, and love.
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